A Description of the Center

About the CSC

 

We teach parents, educators, youth-service workers, communities and organizations how to engage the innate resilience—the human capacity for learning, creativity, compassion, common sense and well-being—in the youth they teach and care for, and, as importantly, in themselves … to become wise and loving role models for our children.

 

The Center’s work is built on three decades of successfully applying a Principles-based/innate health psychology to communities and schools across the nation. We see an understanding of the principles of Mind, Consciousness and Thought as the "essential curriculum" for students, educators, caregivers and parents. Understanding these Principles will assist our younger generations to most rapidly shed insecurity, fear, and the biases and prejudices of the past; and to more fully harness their innate goodness, creativity and wisdom …to create a world of unforeseen possibility and sustainable change.

 

 

The Center’s primary activities include:

 

  • Offering individual, couples’ and family consulting, as well as workshops and seminars. CSC offers corporate and agency training, as well as executive and team coaching to promote camaraderie, efficiency and  productive, positive states of  mind in the workplace—despite economic conditions. A portion of all private training revenue supports our not-for-profit work.

  • Producing Principles-based materials for the fields of education, youth services and parent outreach & education, as well as community revitalization.

  • Offering training programs to deepen the understanding of these Principles for teachers, administrators, parents, community members, agency staff and other caregivers so the "microclimates" within which our children are raised are in alignment to a paradigm of hope, love, courage and sustained positive change.

  • Designing and implementing research projects in order to publicize the efficacy of Principles-based interventions to the relevant fields and the public.

  • Grant-making, articles, educational outreach, speaking engagements

 



Donate to the Center for Sustainable Change!

 

Your donation supports CSC’s work with

  • youth "at-risk and at promise" and their counselors, parents and caregivers
  • staff in juvenile justice systems
  • inner-city communities and schools

 

Please contact the CSC at (650) 424-0705 for more information on our projects and programs and how to make a donation. We accept donations via Visa, Master Card and American Express.



Current re-design of this website is funded by a generous grant from…

 

The San Francisco Foundation



 

CSC Upcoming Events & Announcements

Realize Your Mental Health and Resiliency: Open/Drop-in Class for Individuals and Professionals seeking an understanding of a Three Principles psychology. These classes are now held on the first Sunday of the month at 4 pm at CSC Offices in Palo  Alto, CA. Click here for directions. Classes are currently led by CSC Director Ami Chen Naim on the Principles of Mind, Consciousness and Thought, and applications to work and family life. Cost is $35 per person. Please contact Jayme@principlespsychology.org to RSVP and confirm dates.

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